The Legend of the Lighter

By A.M.W. van Weert and Joop Bromet

Drawing from the collection of the Dutch Cigarette Lighter Museum, this book traces the history of the cigarette lighter from its predecessor, the tinderbox, to the fashionable and decorated lighters... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558598545
• ISBN13: 9781558598546
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 0.8" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Photography

The bandwith of this book is impressive. The photos are better than the narrative, but this book contains some interesting surprises.

A Lighter Encyclopedia

This books shows you the lighters and gives a history of the lighter company. Many lighters. It doesn't give values of lighters, but its practically an encyclopedia on lighters..

Not only for lighter collectors

Ad's book includes phantastic photography and an interesting concept regarding matching the things. The focus is not the jewel stuff one can always find in such books. It is the reflection of pure fascination of lighters, their history, function and the thrill of fire making history. Most important is the fact that the book adresses to the NON-collector as well as to the collector but more to the former. People that do not know anything about the subject will be fascinated by it. Although I am a collector I always read it again and again.

A complete and fantasic information about lighter history

A must for every collector.